[Cialug] Sad news

[Andy Denner]

Per the slack/irc channel (thanks for David Champion's post):
Update: Preliminary information for the Celebration of Life forPrairie 
Nyx 
<https://www.facebook.com/prairienyx?__cft__[0]=AZUBwOWvaEsjWIC417s5vM7W6NLHYXYLoEEEVzbVuqcrBOvSlFn2OnkK3YrAO2ky7K3O6Q8dPbjCQ3xJ1Zb2cOYys9m1KqrQ0FpgFcpOHGRLC6H7A5TCr3MzsVyEgwRH_E5_jCBKo79r_s7J7NCI7w5l&__tn__=-]K-R>/Jon 
Bäckström 
<https://www.facebook.com/unixengineer?__cft__[0]=AZUBwOWvaEsjWIC417s5vM7W6NLHYXYLoEEEVzbVuqcrBOvSlFn2OnkK3YrAO2ky7K3O6Q8dPbjCQ3xJ1Zb2cOYys9m1KqrQ0FpgFcpOHGRLC6H7A5TCr3MzsVyEgwRH_E5_jCBKo79r_s7J7NCI7w5l&__tn__=-]K-R>especially 
for those traveling.
Saturday, 18 February 2023 at 11:30 am. At the First Unitarian Church of 
Des Moines. 1800 Bell Ave Des Moines Iowa.
Streaming options will be available.

Is there interest to send something to their service on behalf of the 
group? If so please contact me off list (denner at gmail.com)

David Champion wrote on 1/28/2023 1:14 PM:
> I'm sad to bring the news that CIALUG founding member Jon Backstrom, AKA
> Prairie Nyx, passed away this week after having a heart attack.
>
> Jon was one of the 4 people at the original CIALUG organizational meeting,
> along with James Shoemaker and Steve Fuller and me. Jon was one of my
> early Linux / Unix mentors and friend, working as a consultant to help us
> get our web server and email systems up and running. Jon had license plates
> UNIX and WEBMSTR you may have seen around.
>
> -dc
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